Word: lyricisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze...
Townshend, an editor for London publisher Faber & Faber, can be lyric and affecting, but too often he is portentous: "Almost as soon as the window had misted up, a great blast of steam wafted into the street. Pete felt like the witness to some awesome nuclear test of devastating power . . . We were the frayed rubber band inside the enormous balsa-wood airplane of rock and roll...
Widowers' House: By George Bernard Shaw presented by Lyric Stage. Through Oct.27, with performances Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm and 8:30pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Info call 742-8703. Lyric Stage, 54 Charles Street...
...expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises in concretist hysteria. Byrne cooked up a homicidal maniac who talked to himself in French. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est" was the refrain of the first big- time song he ever wrote. Funny and frightening, it set the band off on a nicely...
...Sears now carry models in their catalogs. Karaokes, which range from $150 to $2,500, incorporate a cassette player, loudspeaker and microphone in a single unit. All a budding balladeer need do is adjust a few simple controls, start the tape of background music and sing along with the lyric sheet. Thousands of pop songs, from Rock of Ages to Jump, are available...